Tag: dolls

MMFTCNEWS: sneak preview of the mysterious Phantom Stranger

Your parents told you to never talk to strangers, but did they ever say not to collect them? Hopefully not, because then you’d be missing out on the latest DC Comics character to enter Figures Toy Company’s retro figure universe! FTC’s list of offerings continues to grow larger by the week, and in this #MMFTCNEWS…

Up Close: Chainsaw Clark Griswald by NECA

We were elated last year when NECA announced the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation license, one of our favourite holiday films and last year’s Santa Clark made it into our Christmas decorations. So it’s exciting to hear that the initial figure sold well enough to spawn a second, even if it is another Clark and not…

Preview: The 1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog

1980 Pedigree Toys Catalog World's Greatest Superheroes

A sneak peak of one of our upcoming updates is the World’s Greatest Superheroes assortment available to the United Kingdom in 1980. If you’re keeping count, that means the WGSH had three distributors in Great Britain starting with Cecil Coleman in 1974 (Coleman also carried “Johnny Jackson“) famously moving to Palitoy in the mid 1970s…

Super Friends Wave 3 now up for Pre order!

Figures Toy Company has created more Super Friends for you to have fun with, and they’re being joined by two of their most famous foes!  Available to preorder now is Super Friends Series 3, which features the first two characters from the diabolical Legion of Doom! Series 3 features four new figures created in the…

New Retro Carded Superheroes at Figures Toy Company

Now available from Figures Toy Company are new Retro Carded Superheroes, meant to give the look and vibe of classic Mego World’s Greatest Superhero cards. The best part is, the majority of these characters were never released by Mego so you can fill gaps in your vintage collection. Click here to see the entire new assortment.…

Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 ReCap

Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 ReCap

This year’s Aw Yeah Mego Meet event was held on June 18th in Skokie Illinois at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center.   This year’s show was filled with a particularly positive energy, kicked off by a new feature, the launch party graciously hosted by our partners at Aw Yeah Comics Skokie. Early bird attendees enjoyed…

E-Man Two Pack Coming to the Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 Auction!

Random Noir is proud to announce that E-Man is going to be joined by his partner Nova Kane, in action figure format. Not only will the Nova Kane prototype be debuting at Aw Yeah Mego Meet 2016 in Skokie, IL, it will be auctioned off in a 2-pack along with E-Man at this year’s Mego Museum…

More Mego Prototypes at Heritage Auctions

Mego Welcome Back Kotter Prototype

Heritage auctions has revealed it’s mid May lot which includes more treasures from Mego Sculptor Gene Salamacha this month’s lot includes the never before discussed line of “Welcome Back Kotter” Super Softies that Mego was apparantly planning as well as the original head sculpt for the Wizard from the Wizard of Oz. You can see…

New Avengers Boxed John Steed Discovered!

Fun World New Avengers Action Figures from South Africa Mego Museum

For years Mego fans have been regaled with stories of the fabled Denys Fisher New Avengers toy line had made it into production in South Africa. Around the time of the discovery of Jet Jungle, the rumors surfaced again with several South African collectors mentioning having the toys as children. This past year has been amazing…

Up Close: The Monkees (Part One)

Mego Monkees figures

Re-runs of The Monkees  were an afternoon staple for many a 70s kid (self included) growing up, so naturally, we were delighted when Figures Toy Company announced that the first ever Monkees action figures would be in the Mego style. So we’re a bit giddy here at the MegoMuseum to have all three sets of…